Chapter 424. To provide for the care and support of insane persons in the Territory of Alaska
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CHAP. 424.— An Act To provide for the care and support of insane persons in the Territory of Alaska. June 25, 1910.[[H. R. 24833](/us/bill/61/hr/24833).][[Public, No. 306](/us/pl/61/306).] *Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled*, Alaska. Temporary detention hospitals for insane. Authorized at Fairbanks and Nome. That there is hereby established at Fairbanks, in the Territory of Alaska, and at Nome, in the Territory of Alaska, respectively, a detention hospital for the temporary care and detention of the insane, wherein all insane and other patients in charge of the United States marshal shall be detained until transported to the asylum provided by law for their permanent care and cure, or otherwise disposed of as provided by the laws of Appropriation. the United States; and the sum of twenty-five thousand dollars is hereby appropriated out of any moneys in the United States Treasury not otherwise appropriated, not exceeding one-half thereof to be expended in the erection and equipment of the hospital at Fairbanks, and not exceeding one-half thereof to be expended in the erection and equipment of the hospital at Nome.
Sec. 2. Board on construction. That the governor of Alaska and the judge of the district court and the United States marshal of the judicial division in which Contracts, etc. the said detention hospital, respectively, is to be erected and equipped, shall constitute in each division a board whose duty it shall be to cause the said detention hospital to be erected and equipped; that public bids for the erection of the same shall be called for, and the said board shall let the contract for the erection of the buildings, respectively, to the lowest and best bidder, but the said board may reject any or Expenditures, report, etc. all bids and call for new bids in their discretion; that the moneys hereby appropriated, or so much thereof as shall be necessary, shall be expended by the said board upon the approval of the governor; and the said board in each division shall make a detailed report of the expenditures of the said funds to the Attorney-General of the Care and maintenance.
United States; that the said hospitals, after their erection and equipment, shall be under the charge and control of the United States marshal in the division where situated, and the maintenance thereof shall be paid in the same manner and from the same fund as the expense of the United States jails under the same marshal is paid. Approved, June 25, 1910.